auditive
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According to Hensen, certain Crustacea on sloughing spontaneously introduce fine grains of sand as auditive stones into their otolith vesicle.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
He is not "auditive"; like Loti and the Goncourts, he writes for the eye.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
Hitherto we have considered only the audition of a single sound, but it is possible also to have simultaneous auditive sensations, as in musical harmony.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
The eye and the ear are not merely means of perception, for in that case there could be no visual and no auditive arts.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
Be this last as it may, it is certain that the emotion connected with the word Beautiful can be evoked by that word alone, and without an accompanying act of visual or auditive perception.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon